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Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
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You ask a faith, — they are content with faith;
You ask to have, — but they reply "IT hath."
There is no end, there need be no path.
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Perhaps it is a weakness to confide to you embryo designs, which never may glow into life, or mock me by their failure.
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country — that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
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I only know one prayer — "Give me the truth,
Give me that colored whiteness, ancient youth,
Complex and simple, seen in joy and ruth. Let me not by vain wishes bar my claim,
Nor soothe my hunger by an empty name,
Nor crucify the Son of man by hasty blame. But in the earth and fire, water and air,
Live earnestly by turns without despair,
Nor seek a home till home be every where!"
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Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power,
Till in the changes of thy sound
A chord's three parts distinct are found.
I will faithful move with thee,
God-ordered, self-fed energy,
Nature in eternity.
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What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
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Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root...
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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
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I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
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A many-colored light flows from our sun;
Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun;
The prison modifies the perfect day;
But thou hast known such mediums to shun,
And cast once more on life a pure white ray.
Absorbed in the creations of thy mind,
Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.
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Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
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The day wears heavily, — why, then, ignore it;
Peace is the soul's desire, — such thoughts restore it;
The truth thou art, — it needs not implore it.
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No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
May 23, 1810
Died:
July 19, 1850
(aged 40)
Bio:
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.
Known for:
Summer on the Lakes (1844)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
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